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Social Network Accessibility And Issues

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Social Network Accessibility and Issues: A survey
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INTRODUCTION:
Social network sites (e.g. Facebook, Twitter etc.) are becoming very popular day by day. People are using social network to communicate with each other, share their views on different issues, upload photos and videos, instant messaging etc. The social networks are also becoming a favourite medium of communication to the people with disability. But there are so many issues regarding the accessibility of social network. Especially for the blind people the accessibility of social network are need to be improve a lot. Using a screen reader it has difficulty to navigate due to lack of headers, few keyboard shortcuts, no alternate text for images, poor colour contrast, …show more content…

The use of social network make the people with disability less isolated. So, this is, one of the way they can communicate with other people. As the internet is growing and becoming faster, it consists more numbers of multimedia contents. So, the Internet for the people with visual disabilities have a limited accessibility. The population of visually impaired users are growing day by day. And the use of social network by visually impaired users are also growing rapidly. But still there is accessibility for the visually impaired users are not at the mark. Means they are not following Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Here, in this paper we will discuss about the accessibility of two popular social networking sites Facebook and Twitter. We will sort out some of the accessibility issues of these sites and try to provide some solution to these issues based on …show more content…

This allows people using screen readers to know what to expect before it’s read out loud. The uppercase formats are for further clarity to sighted users.
• Photos: [PIC]
• Videos: [VIDEO]
• Audio: [AUDIO]
If your website has a full closed captioned video or transcript posted online, include a link back to the page.
Make your tweet serve as a descriptive caption so it has context for the item and then link back to your website if necessary.
Composing Tweets
Place any hashtags or @mentions at the end of the tweet. This allows a screen reader to voice the main content of the tweet more clearly in the beginning, and saving the service-specific speak for the end (the parts that sound confusing).
Avoid using unfamiliar acronyms or “text-speak” that would sound strange if read by a screen reader. If space allows, try to spell out the acronyms or use full words to better convey the information.
Use "CamelCase" for multiple words for hashtags; that is, capitalize the first letters of compound words (e.g. use #PondicherryUniversity not #pondicherryuniversity).
If your phone has built-in text-to-speech (VoiceOver for iPhone) or a text-to-speech app, try listening to your tweet prior to distribution so you know now your message would be conveyed to a person who is

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